Everyone is looking for connections between the songs. I don't usually approach a record as a concept. There's no overriding theme I'm trying to represent. It's all about the individual songs.

I meet people in my daily life, people who seem to experience some change and some growth on a personal level, and that gives me hope.

I end up writing about all kinds of things. I never make an attempt to write about anything in particular. I don't have a little list of topics to write about.

Have faith in humankind a respect for what is earthly and an unfaltering belief in peace and understanding

We are the spirit, the collective conscience. We create the pain, and suffering, and beauty in this world.

There's a power in words. There's a power in being able to explain and describe and articulate what you know and feel and believe about the world, and about yourself.

I learn all these things about the record talking about it after it's finished.